Hidden River Arts offers $1,000 and publication on our Hidden River Press imprint of Hidden River Publishing to an original, unpublished novel, novel-in-stories, or short story collection of any length or style, including historical fiction, speculative fiction, and literary fiction.
Please include a synopsis of the entire book*, an outline, and the complete manuscript, IN THAT ORDER. Also include a bio and resume, and a contact sheet including name, address, email, telephone. Also, you should include certification of original work, no AI included (see below). Submissions that do not have all required materials will be discarded unread. All required materials must be included in ONE document. Submittable does not permit multiple uploads. Please note: manuscripts that have been self-published are considered published, and are not eligible.
*If you are submitting a collection of stories, please include 2-3 sentence descriptions of each story.
NO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE can be used to create this work. You must include, with your submission materials, a statement certifying that the work is entirely original, and that no AI has been used in any way.
Reading Fee: $20.00 Submission window opens May 20, 2025 and closes August 1, 2025.
Submissions are currently closed and will open for our 2025 on May 20, 2025 . Please follow our blog for any announcements and future calls for submissions. (http://hiddenriverarts.wordpress.com)
This competition is open to international submissions for all writers in English. We are also open to manuscripts that have been translated into English. The submission of said manuscript must be made by the author and NOT the translator, whose name should be included in the submission materials. This is not a translation award. It is a writing award.
Our decision process is thorough and therefore takes some time. We encourage authors to take advantage of our policy accepting simultaneous submissions, and ask only that you notify us immediately if your book has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
We also accept multiple submissions; each manuscript, however, must be submitted separately.
All awards are decided by Hidden River staff, and decisions are final. We reserve the right to withhold the prize on any given year should our staff decide that no manuscripts meet the winning criteria or if the number of submissions falls below the number required by our by-laws.
Contact info:
hiddenriverarts@gmail.com
484-215-1245
Please be sure to follow our Hidden River blog at http://hiddenriverarts.wordpress.com where the full listing of semi-finalists and finalists can also be found, and for more information about our awards, our winners, and updates on all our activities.